Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.
Hope is a talent like any other.
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
She did not so much cook as assassinate food.